Rita Nakashima Brock

Paradise In This Life

May 14, 2023

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism, Wellness, World Religions

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The historic Universalist side of our religion says something powerful. It says, “Love the hell out of this world!” Say that with me: “Love the hell out of this world!” And we can do that, because, as Universalism teaches, hell is a human creation and therefore healed through human effort. Efforts of many kinds. Feeding…